Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 286
ffer to posterity. Right prevailed, and with this triumph of justice the human conscience,throwing aside casuistry and evasion for a time, faced its problems honestlyand asserted its own sovereignty. The consequences of the mighty struggle did not stop here. Once theprinciples of abstract justice… … CZAR ALEXANDER IT. OF RUSSIA. THE CENTURYS MORAL PROGRESS 265 a true democracy, there came a tendency to extend its application to mankindat large; and women, who according to their station in life had hithertobeen dealt with theoretically as either useful or ornamental possessions,began to find…
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